“We were shooting a scene late one night when I went to Virgil and told him there was a line that I thought contradicted an earlier line,” Gibson told the magazine. “He said, ‘Sorry, it’s necessary, and I absolutely have to have it.’ ” The actor said he was frustrated and telling some castmates about it when Williams came in the room.”[He] started coming towards me. As he brushed past me, my foot came up and tapped him on the leg. If I hadn’t moved, he would have run into me. We had some choice words, for which I apologized the next day, and that was it. It was over. We shot the scene, I went home – and I never got to go back.”

Gibson initially was suspended, as Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva reported, for “kicking” co-EP Williams, and his case was being looked into by human resources. Soon afterward, the ABC Studios/CBS TV Studios-produced show announced Gibson would not be returning.

“It seems like they’re trying to erase me from the show,” Gibson told People. “That hurts. … My pride and reputation are hurt, but in the end I know the good work is what people will remember. I just need more opportunities to do good work and be a good guy.”